It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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